SLAPD_CONF_UNKNOWN_BAILOUT is wrapped in LDAP_DEVEL as of today. Any
opinions on how dangerous it may be, or if it might be mainstreamed in the
foreseeable future? (I just caught a config typo that's been around for
weeks, and it was rather annoying that religiously running "slaptest"
after every edit was useless because I don't run "slaptest -d 64".)

No opinions on the main question. But probably slaptest should enable
the CONFIG debug level by default...